MINNEAPOLIS -- Bio-Techne Corporation (NASDAQ: TECH) announced today the election of Dr. Alpna Seth and Dr. Joe Keegan to the company's board of directors for a first term, effective today. Seth is Chief Operating Officer of Vir Biotechnology, Inc. and Keegan is an advisor to and director for several life science tools companies. "We are extremely pleased to have [...]

Fellowship program recognized as a big, bold idea to improve the productivity, competitiveness and innovative capacity of Australia’s medtech, biotech and pharmaceutical sector MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA – MTPConnect—the Medical Technologies and Pharmaceuticals Industry Growth Centre—today announced it will provide a proposed AUD750,000 provisional funding to the Certara-Monash University Industry Fellowship Program over two years, with proposed [...]

Charles River to license PDX lines to InSphero for development of 3D InSight™ PDX Microtissues, expansion of in vitro oncology services.  PDF Version Schlieren, Switzerland InSphero AG and Charles River Laboratories International, Inc. today announced a partnership through which Charles River will license its collection of patient-derived xenograft (PDX) tumors to InSphero. Additionally, Charles River will leverage InSphero’s [...]

Illumina and Pillar Biosciences, Inc. today announced an agreement to develop next-generation sequencing (NGS) based in vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests. Under the terms of the agreement, Pillar Biosciences will lead the development of a series of diagnostic tests that will be run on the Illumina MiSeq™Dx instrument. Pillar Biosciences has developed Stem Loop Inhibition Mediated [...]

Orochem issued new patent for separating astaxanthin. US Patent number 9650333 B2 Abstract: Disclosed is a chromatographic process complex for the refining of krill oil extract including desalting, removal of impurities such as trimethylamine oxide (TMAO), and the production of krill oil products including desalted krill oil extract, polar lipid products having polar lipid contents [...]

Norsk Elektro Optikk group (NEO) has entered into an agreement with Swedish listed company Nederman Holding AB regarding the purchase of all shares in NEO Monitors AS. The purchase price is approximately 402 MNOK, on a cash and debt free basis. NEO Monitors is an enterprise with close to 40 employees, developing, producing and marketing [...]

PierianDx announced today two key additions that will expand the organization’s reach into health systems and global markets while deepening clinical expertise. BG Jones has been named Senior Vice President of Business Development and will lead the expansion of PierianDx’s clinical genomics platform into health systems in the U.S. and global markets while cultivating partner [...]

Shimadzu Corporation Chairman Akira Nakamoto (left) and IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano Shimadzu Corporation and the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency, headquartered in Vienna, Austria)*1have agreed on the donation of a Shimadzu LCMS-8060 High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer*2 to the agency. IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano and Shimadzu Corporation Chairman Akira Nakamoto attended the signing ceremony [...]

Emergent adopting ABEC Custom Single Run (CSR®) technology to increase flexibility and productivity BETHLEHEM, Pa.----ABEC, a global provider of integrated solutions and services for biopharmaceutical manufacturing, today announced that Emergent BioSolutions will equip their Baltimore, Maryland bulk manufacturing facility (Bayview), designated a Center for Innovation in Advanced Development and Manufacturing (CIADM), with an ABEC 4,000L CSR [...]

The Endress+Hauser Group is celebrating another development: After expanding production and building a new plant in the US, plus opening new sales offices in Malaysia, France and Chile, the company has now dedicated a new facility in Brussels. Endress+Hauser invested approximately 6.6 million euros in the new building in Belgium’s capital. “The sales center has [...]